How To Learn Digital Photography

All you need to have in order to learn digital photography is a strong passion for this subject. There are plenty of resources available for those who really want to use them. Everything depends now on your dedication and the efforts that you are planning to put forth in order to seriously learn digital photography. [...]

Improve Your Wedding Photography Skills

When it comes to wedding photography, you can never do too much planning to ensure that your special day is captured in the manner befitting your personal style. With a few wedding photography tips you can ensure that this integral piece of your wedding day goes off without a hitch and gives you a lifetime [...]

Introduction to Fashion Design: Courses 2010

The NABA Introduction to Fashion Design summer course gives aspiring fashion designers, or just people who love fashion (with no age limit), the chance to experience an enjoyable two weeks creating a mini-collection from the first ideas to the final presentation and all that that involves. An intense two weeks starting with research on a [...]

Different Digital Photography Tools

There are a lot of amateur photographers who like to use different digital photography tools in order to change a little bit the appearance of their photos. While some digital photography tools are suitable only for professionals, there are plenty of other ones used by all amateurs to tweak their images, and they are extremely [...]

The Effects of Pyro Stain in Platinum Printing

In the beginning there was platinum and the world was void and without form.  And then God said, “Let there be pyro”, and it was good.’  So maybe I am getting a little carried away.  Using pyro is not exactly a religious experience although some promote it with almost religious fervor. I have Colin & [...]

Tri-Color Gum with Cyanotype

Tri-Color Gum with Cyanotype by Sam Wang Gum or gum-bichromate printing is a very flexible process capable of producing very beautiful and permanent prints. Although volume upon volumes have already been written on the process, few contain information that readers can follow to obtain repeatable results. This is partly because we generally do not work [...]

The Fundamentals of Temperaprint

In the beginning there was the egg. Eggs have been used as a binding medium for pigment paint since primitive times. The Temperaprint process utilises a form of light sensitive paint and has some similarities to gum bi-chromate printmaking. The process is applied to any suitable surface in the manner of Egg-Tempera-Painting. The image is [...]

Mapping the way to second-chance photos

by Chris Nicholson Some of your best photos for a given location will come not from your first visit there, but from your second, or third, or twentieth. On your first trip you may see a great waterfall, but discover that the water flow is only a trickle during the summer. On your second trip [...]

In the bag: Ten things traveling photographers should always carry

by Chris Nicholson The most important item a photographer should carry in his or her camera bag, without question, without argument, without fail, is: A camera. But after that (and some lenses, film and batteries), you’ll find that your bag still has some empty pockets to fill. Here are some suggestions for how to use [...]

How to determine sunset & sunrise times and locations

by Chris Nicholson A significant amount of travel, landscape and nature photography involves sunrises and sunsets. And a significant amount of time to photograph these solar events involves scouting locations. Therefore, it’s important for a photographer to know how to determine not only the time of a sunrise or sunset, but also where the sun [...]